# Cordango vs Replit: general-purpose software, or a company capability

> Replit has managed authentication, SAML SSO, SCIM and organisation audit logs that stream to SIEM. It is still a general-purpose software platform. Checked against Replit's own documentation.

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# Cordango vs Replit

Replit builds software. Cordango adds a capability to a company that already exists.

This page used to say that ten Replit apps meant ten logins and no audit trail. That is not true, and it has not been for a while. Replit ships managed authentication the agent can install with almost no setup, with Clerk-backed options alongside it. Enterprise adds SAML SSO, SCIM, organisation roles and groups, and audit logs covering more than fifty event types that can stream into your own SIEM.

What Replit hands you is infrastructure, and a lot of it. What it does not hand you, by design, is an opinion about your business. Replit’s own guidance tells developers to enforce server-side authorisation and data-access rules, because each application still decides for itself what a customer is and who is allowed to see one. Cordango answers that question once, on the platform, before the first capability exists.

Fact-checked 25 August 2026

Feature availability and pricing change. Every row is checked against the vendor's own current documentation, linked at the foot of this page.

Default means it is there without anyone setting it up. Available means the vendor supports it, sometimes only on a particular plan. Build or configure means it is possible and it is your work. Not a focus means the product is aimed somewhere else.

## The short version.

Where Replit wins 

-   ANY General-purpose software. If it can be written, it can be built here.
-   INFRA Managed databases, hosting and deployment, without you assembling them
-   AUTH Replit Auth installs in minutes, with Clerk as an alternative
-   IAM SAML SSO, SCIM, roles and groups, and audit logs that stream to your SIEM
-   CODE Real code you own and can take with you

Where Cordango wins 

-   CTX Your organizations, people and teams are in the capability before you build it
-   RBAC Rights checked under every capability rather than written per application
-   LOG One field-level history across everything, produced by the runtime
-   EU German data centres, and we name the provider in the sub-processor list
-   ASK Too complex to generate? We build it on the same core.

## Side by side.

Cordango vs Replit, compared across the dimensions that change the decision. Fact-checked 25 August 2026.

|     | Cordango | Replit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Building an app by describing it | Default the normal way in, alongside ready-made capabilities | Default the agent writes and runs real software |
| What you can build | Not a focus internal operational capabilities. Cordango is not a general-purpose software platform. | Default more or less anything you can write |
| Shared company records across every app | Default organizations, people and teams are there before the first app | Build or configure each project starts with an empty schema unless you deliberately design a shared one |
| Organisation-level identity and roles | Default Microsoft and Google sign-in on every plan, SAML and SCIM higher up | Available SAML SSO, SCIM, roles and groups on Enterprise |
| Sign-in for the app you just built | Default one sign-in for the whole platform, nothing to install | Available managed Replit Auth, or Clerk, installed per project |
| Authorisation inside the app | Default enforced below the application, per entity, per field and per command | Build or configure Replit’s own guidance is to write server-side authorisation into each application |
| Audit across every app | Default field-level history produced by the runtime, nothing to model | Available organisation audit logs on Enterprise, 50+ event types, SIEM streaming |
| Data architecture | Default one company model, one schema per tenant, every capability reads it | Not a focus a database per project, which is what general-purpose software needs |
| Managed hosting | Default backups, updates and patching are ours | Default databases, hosting and deployment are managed for you |
| German or EU data residency | Default German data centres, sub-processors published | Unclear we could not find a documented customer-selectable German or EU region. Ask Replit rather than assuming either way. |
| Taking the result elsewhere | Not a focus your data exports. The app is a definition on the platform. The compiler and CLI are Apache-2.0, the platform is not. | Default it is your code, in a repository, and it leaves with you |
| Who has to build it | Default you describe it, or you ask us to build it on the same core | Available the agent gets you a long way. Hardening it for real data still wants someone technical. |
| One contract for the whole platform | Default apps are not priced separately. The tenth capability does not add a line item. | Default one Replit contract, with seats and usage published |

## The architecture difference.

Replit’s unit is the project, and a project is real software. It gets its own schema, its own routes and its own idea of who may do what. Replit gives that project good scaffolding: managed authentication, a database, hosting, and at the organisation level the SSO, SCIM and audit logging that let you administer a lot of projects at once.

Administering many projects is not the same as those projects sharing a model. Replit says as much in its own guidance, where responsibility for server-side authorisation and data access sits with the application. So the tenth internal app still has to be told what an employee is, and which employees may see a salary.

Cordango settles that once. The trade is that Replit will build you general-purpose software and Cordango will not.

Where Replit wins 

Replit is the better choice when the output should be unrestricted general-purpose software, when you want the code and the repository, or when what you are building is not an internal operational process at all.

## Which one should you pick?

### Pick Replit if

-   01 The output should be real, general-purpose software
-   02 You want the repository and the deployment target
-   03 It is customer-facing, or it is not an internal process at all
-   04 Someone technical will harden it before it holds real records

### Pick Cordango if

-   01 It is an internal process, and it holds employee or customer records
-   02 The same people and customers should appear in every app
-   03 Somebody will ask who can see what, and the answer should already exist
-   04 You would rather not review a generated authorisation layer

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## Where these facts come from.

-   [Replit authenticationdocs.replit.com/features/auth-and-identity/authentication](https://docs.replit.com/features/auth-and-identity/authentication)
-   [Replit audit logsdocs.replit.com/teams/identity-and-access-management/audit-logs](https://docs.replit.com/teams/identity-and-access-management/audit-logs)
-   [Replit pricingreplit.com/pricing](https://replit.com/pricing)

**What we can show you, and what we cannot.** Cordango holds no ISO 27001, SOC 2 or C5 certification today, and has not commissioned an external penetration test yet. We would rather you read that here than find it in procurement. [Security and permissions at Cordango](https://www.cordango.com/security/), and the [data processing agreement](https://www.cordango.com/dpa/) in full.

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## Bring one internal app prompt. See the difference.

Bring the prompt you would give Replit. We will build it in the demo, so you can see what changes when it is a capability on an existing company rather than a new project.

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